formalCRITICIZE to officially criticize someone for something they have done wrong 严厉批评,正式谴责
He was officially censured for his handling of the situation.
他因对这个情况处理不当而受到严厉批评。
Examples from the Corpus
censure• No sitting speaker in the 208-year history of this Congress has been reprimanded or censured.• The firms also were censured and fined $ 250,000 each.• Tammy Bruce was censured by the feministelite for saying she did not want to deal with a bunch of black women.• In particular, they have been censured for failing sufficiently to take into account the needs of local people.• Several senators called for Hayes to be censured for his conduct.• Who was she to censure him?• Ali censures the heretic with a playfulstare.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CENSURE | CENSURE + NOUN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤public公開的譴責➤moral道德譴責➤social社會譴責➤official官方的譴責◇It was unavoidable that some artists would face official censure.有些藝術家會不可避免地面臨官方的譴責。VERB + CENSURE➤come under, face受到責難;面對指責◇He could face censure from his colleagues.他可能要面對同事的指責。➤avoid, escape躲避/逃避指責◇Costs will have to be kept down if severe public censure is to be avoided.要避免公眾嚴厲的指責就得壓縮開支。CENSURE + NOUN➤motion (BrE) 譴責的動議PHRASES➤a motion of censure, a vote of censure (both BrE) 表示不信任的動議/投票◇Right-wing parties tabled a motion of censure against the government.右翼黨派提交了不信任政府的動議。censure
verb
ADVERB | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤severely嚴厲指責◇The manager was severely censured for negligence.經理因玩忽職守而受到嚴厲指責。PREPOSITION➤for為⋯指責